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BRADENTON, Fla. – On this Independence Day, a controversy over free speech among teachers using Facebook is making headlines after their online discussion referred to a student as possibly being “the evolutionary link between orangutans and humans.”
Bay News 9 obtained a Facebook conversation from mid-May among teachers at G.D. Rogers Garden Elementary School in Bradenton, Fla.Now, the state of Florida will investigate the matter.
The exchange reportedly began with music teacher Lauren Orban writing: “I’m fairly convinced that one of my students may be the evolutionary link between orangutans and humans.”
The Bradenton Herald says several other instructors then jokingly joined the conversation, with second-grade teacher Emma Disley pressing Orban to share the student’s name, writing, “Please tell me who you are talking about. This made me laugh out loud. Haha.”
Another second-grade teacher, Laura Beth Cross, wrote, “even though I can probably guess, please tell.” When Orban revealed the student’s initials, Cross responded, “Yup! Just who I suspected!”
But the conversation came to a sudden halt when Jauana Johnson, the school registrar, jumped in to write, “What the hell is that suppose to mean?”
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